Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1887-06-10

papers OF q llmlteu ChCuia"oi,
was no means by which the outside
world could get even an mixing oil
the barbarities practised upon the
poorer tenantry OF that woe-stricken
land. At the beginning OF the eight
zenith century Dean Swift complained
that the English government, having
taxed everything else in Ireland, were
about to tax the air his oppressed
fellow countrymen breathed. AT the
beginning OF the nineteenth century
a few men like Sidney Smith-the
flower OF the English nation-raised
their voices in protest against the in
famies that were enacted in that
country when such recreant lrishmen
as Castlereagh ruled the roost. But
there was no general knowledge even
in England of the extent OF the suf-
ferings in the adjoining isle. In fact,
at that time, Englishmen were not in
a condition to lend sympathetic ear
to the woes of anybody but them
selves. The Napoleonic wars had
resulted in widespread misery every
where in Britain, and when the cur
rent century opened there were one
hundred and thirteen statutes under
which even a poor Englishman could
be hanged. Since that time matters
have bravely altered for the better.
A broad and deep humanitarianism
has sprung up over the whole globe,
and nowhere more notably than In
England. Gladstone is the most IL
lustrious exemplar of this new and
delightful Development OF that fellow
feeling which makes the whole world
kin, but he has myralds OF followers.
The heart and conscience OF the Eng
lish people are with him in his noble
crusade for the right. 1t is a signlti-
cant illustration of the extreme bru-
tally of these late evictions that the
correspondents Of the English news
papers which witnessed them felt inn
PEELED by the impulses of common
hum anity to interfere for the protec-
ton of the evicted. The representa-
tives OF the press guild covered them
selves with honor on that occasion.
as they did the other day in the brutal
Orange riots in Canada which aimed
to murder Editor O'Brien. But for
the plucky interposition of the
correspondents of the New York and
Chicago press the Lansdowne mobs
would undoubtedly have butchered
this patriotic Irishman. These facts
speak trumpet-tongued of the genuine
ferocity that inspires the enemies OF
Home Rule for Ireland and the
cham pions of landlordism. They
will react powerfully in the interests
of civilization and the right. When
Governor Stanford, four or five years
ago, visited Ireland, he looked very
closely into the condition of the ten
ant CT ass. On his return to San Fran
cisco he was interviewed by a mum.
Der of the the newspaper reporters Of
that city; and, amongst other things
he said that it was an absolute inn
possibility for the Irish people to pay
the rents which were exacted from
them and keep soul and body to
gether. The Bodyke evictions will
in the end, have beneficial effect up
on the struggle of the Irish people fol
Justice; but, meanwhile, the utter
most agony and restitution that any
people were eversubjected to are being
endured by them. No wonder that
the eloquent voice of Michael Davitt
bursts forth in threnody The
only strange thing is that the Irish
people do not rise en- masse and STAMP
out a proscriptive and tyrannical
influence which is depopulating Ire
land and compelling those who re
main to endure exactioDs more severe
than the Egyptian taskmasters of old
laid upon the shoulders OF the Israel
ties. The poorer tenantry of Ireland
have been set to a task-that o.
wringing from the earth what it can
not b made to yield-whlch discounts
the old imposition, patented by the
Pharoahs, of being obliged to make
bricks without straw.